It’s getting quiet, there seems to be an exodus, and I’ve got some offline writing to get back to. In any case, I ducked into two world stories (take a wild guess what on) quickly, but my absence here was not an indication that I wasn’t boycotting successfully. I’ve only messed up on that once when it honestly slipped my mind what day it was!

HA! Beans…
My kids were feeding the dogs and I asked them --
“What did you give the dogs that made them eat everything up so fast”
They replied….
“Oh, Beans, Mom, we used that can in the fridge….
and added it to their food.”
Thanks a lot, they have to have them sleep in my room.
Oh boy, that can has been there for over a week.

Those days of staying up until the wee hours are long gone for me. I need at least 7 hours of sleep to function the next morning. With 16 cats always needing something, a nap is just a distant dream for me, plus napping gives me a headache. I’m usually in bed before midnight.

Boomer, your family Sundays sound like absolute hell! I had a boyfriend like that. I would go to his house and his friends would come over and suddenly I’m surrounded by jerks spouting off the N word. It was a real shock to me and I ended up just slinking away to hide in the bedroom.

E’Cat,
Yep, just imagine it went on until I got married and had kids. One day, and after much therapy, I told all of them they could do whatever they wanted in their own homes, EXCEPT when my kids were around OR in my home.

On the racism thing, I wrote this at ‘another site’ and kinda saved it:

So, I’m just gonna throw this out there. I know some see racism everywhere. I try to be circumspect about it. But here’s what I’ve been thinking.

Now, all their memes are vapid: teleprompter, mustard, ACORN, pronunciation of a certain South Asian country, and yes, Birthers, especially. But what I was rolling through my mind was this obsession with him golfing. Now, with some, I think they get a certain kick throwing back our stuff -- though many seem genuinely thrown off by the fact that Bush was golfing away too -- “now watch this drive”. Yet, with the mocking of him golfing, and I’m sorry to say this in the post-Tiger world (no not the current state of ‘affairs’), I sense a tinge of something else in the snide tone and the rapid spread with which it took hold (represented in monikers (t)here, for example). How many presidents have golfed? More than have used a teleprompter, that’s for sure. So what is the big fixation about him golfing really about? Seems like it should be, pardon this, par for the course. (If you’re Boehner though you always look like you missed par on a gimme putt.)

Am I unfairly reading too much into it?
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Granted, I don’t have to be so coy with you guys, but what do you think?

I think it’s an open secret now, anyone who isn’t one of those exhibiting racism, veiled or not, knows what’s going on. As you say, how many Presidents have been criticized for speaking well? Black men aren’t supposed to speak well?

John McCain was born in Panama, anyone on the Right call him a Panamanian and question his citizenship?

Palin has had an exorcism. Anyone on the right question her character over having an actual witch doctor as a preacher?

It’s so damn obvious and it’s just a weak dance to deny it. Especially with all the home made racist artwork and songs that come from those assholes.

They know it, we know it and many in the MSM have no balls (though Jon Stewart, Colbert, KO and Rachel called it for what it is).

I started calling people out “across the street” during the campaign and long before the election. If one has never seen the reality and true definition of racism, they only believe what they’ve been taught.

I said earlier…my family tossed the “n” word around at Sunday supper (in front of all the little kids) as if it were a football.

My grandma was from Savannah, and I didn’t know until I got older when my dad told me. She would never say anything blatantly racist, believed in live and let live, but the way he put it to me hypothetically: she and my grandpa would never be a part of a lynching mob, but if they saw one come down the street, they would look the other way, and say that that’s just the way things are. Probably did something to deserve it. She wouldn’t eat anything fixed by a black person, simply politely throw it away, and later I finally registered the uncomfortable looks she gave when we were up visiting and I was watching a Lenny Kravitz video -- it wasn’t just the ‘Rock’ thing.

I can’t remember how many times I pulled out the ‘there shall be no religious test’ clause. I remember when Powell came out and said it -- I was like FINALLY. I was saying the same thing for the longest time. So what if he were? Of course, that’s idealistic. Evangelicals were concerned about a Mormon, and in America you have to at least pretend you’re Mainline, Evangelical or Jewish in 98% of districts to get elected. I still have my questions on Obama -- not that he’s Muslim -- but that he’s personally not an organized religion guy. His mom certainly wasn’t.

Regardless, the last line was perfect!

And yes, the bubbling comes to a full rolling boil real quick if you wade into the wrong parts of the internet.

Heh! And Obama’s initial problem, according to the MSM was he might not be “black enough”.

Here in Cali, both of our Senators are Jewish, many reps are but I still don’t think, even after Obama, the majority in America is ready to elect a non-Christian, a Jew or a Muslim or whatever as president, no matter how little they looked “Jew-y” or “Muslim-y”.

I had the sense long before golf. During the campaign for example…folks (and I’m being generous here) stood in line to see the McPalin KLAN. tHEY WERE HOLDING EVIL SIGNS, CARRYING SOCK MONKEYS, AND OVERWHELMINGly reminded me of my family (both sides)…a bunch of old, bigoted men and wome, with their adult children (who knew no better) in tow. It’s inbred. Period. If one is never exposed to anything different, one becomes a product of one’s environment.

I remember this post, Khirad. I never watch Fox et al so I haven’t seen them making a big deal out of it. But my old dad was a huge golf fan and fond of the term “blackies” and, had he still been alive, he would have had a fit both at Tiger and Obama.

It confirmed for me that it really is (with quite a few of them), about him being in the most exclusive clubhouse. Others, who are younger (remember that one case where the young Republican girl didn’t get the slave reference posted online?) may not get the undertones and really be so dense as to think it’s the criticism they purport it to be -- of a man at play while shirking his duties (again, cf. Bush). But the others know full well the dog whistles they’re sending out there.

I worked at a private golf club for a couple of years, blacks where allowed but not encouraged to be members…they always found a way to deny them membership. All on the up and up though, {{wink}}, {{wink}}…

There are code words, some secret language that they have, winks, nods and so forth…